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Ted Williams, the man with golden voice | 2
Global News What Happened To...?
Viro Virus
The edited video sat on dorrell's computer for months. Then one slow nuse day in january two thousand 11, must have beenJanuary second or third. 24 hours later a guy calls me to my desk and says, hey, your vidios inego viral. And i'm a sceptic. I thought os got another sog about he says, now,. what's the local university? And your video is number one on redit right now. And you might want to tell your i t people to get prepared for an onslaught of hits on omte video. Ok, thanks. One didn't think much about it. Ten minutes later, can in calls
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So
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the edited video sat on dorrell's computer for months. And then i had another slow nuse day in
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january two thousand 11, must have been january second or january third. And ithought, oh yes, i got that one of that homeless sky. And i dusted it, os out of the computer and put it on the line aagain, didn't think about it too much. 24
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hours later, a
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guy calls me to my desk and says, hey, your vidios inego viral. And i said, which video? And i'm a sceptic. I thought os got another sog about he says, now, what's the local university? And your video is number one on redit right now. And you might want to tell your i t people to get prepared for an onslaught of hits on omte video. Ok, thanks. One didn't think much about it. Ten minutes later, can in calls, and it just, the flood gates opened at that point with media request, media interviews. Everybody's trying to find ted.
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Meanwhile, ted had no idea what had happened. The cept of virol was lost on him.
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And i knew nothing about viro. I didn't even have an internet phone. I thought that the viro would avmint that a virus was a installed, or a virus ti tisoi. You know, i was no way i was going to admit or to ort or fess up to nothing on the internet, because i don't have ways and means to put it on her. So when he initially did the bidding op i lied ours. It was very public that i lied. You know, i said i had two years tleam. And i looked like a hot mess. I thought maybe it was a job possibility. I figured, if he had a camera, he's got me popole, maybe he'll take it home, look at it and see if i'm worthy of hiring. That was it. I hadn't heard no more from him until that that day, january fourth, two thousand 11, i find out tat one of our local radio stations morning to and e find out that there was a viral video in me, in the first piral video of the internet age, or im an internet sensation, or any of that.
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